Cut a piece of tulle which is at least twice as long as the eyelet lace. This will create a nice ruffle.

Cut a piece of elastic using the measurement around your calf. These are the pieces you should have…

Using your needle and thread, running stitch along the top of the tulle, if you pull it tight as you go this will create the ruffle.

Tie it off when you reach the end and you should have something along the lines of this:

Place the eyelet lace on top of the tulle.

Stitch the eyelet and the tulle together in two rows, one at the top and one at the bottom. This will form a channel for the elastic to be threaded through.

So you should having something along these lines:

Now you need to thread the elastic through the channel, I used a safety pin to guide it:

Make sure the other end of the elastic doesn’t slip through! Once it’s all gathered on you should have both ends out the sides.

Stitch the elastic’s ends together securely.

Then it’s just a matter of threading some ribbon through the eyelets. I used a bobby pin to do that because the eyelet holes were too small for the safety pin.

Make sure that you leave enough ribbon so that you can completely stretch the elastic without it being pulled back inside. That should give you enough to tie a bow on the end since you don’t want to have to rethread the ribbon every time you wear them!

Stitch the ends of the eyelet lace together so it closes the gap, tie the ribbon in a bow and you’re all finished!

Taadaa! Pretty cute ^_^ I like these because the tulle makes them a little difference to standard sock toppers. When you wear them with over the knee socks they look a little more grown up too!

Hope that was useful and as always let me know if you have any questions!

What you need for ribbon and lace sock toppers:

• Eyelet lace
• Thick lace for ruffling OR several smaller laces
• Needle and thread
• Ribbon
• Scissors
• Bobby pin

Now normally for this kind of thing you would use a lace which is as thick as you want the end result to be tall but I didn’t have any on hand so instead I am making this using several thinner laces which I will stitch together to form a thick piece. Obviously you can skip this if you already have thick lace. Also I am using a mixture of cotton and nylon lace, if you want a quality result don’t use nylon because 90% of the time it ends up looking cheap. Again I didn’t want to buy new supplies for something I might not use at the end so I’m sure you can just get the general idea from this and then choose your own materials!

So you need to measure around the top of your calf and cut lengths of lace which are twice that measurement. Below are the pieces I am using for 1 topper: eyelet, two nylon and one cotton to edge it.

This is the order they will be stitched together.

The first thing to do is stitch the 3 bottom pieces together so it combines to make the large piece of lace.

Overlap them slightly and use a basic running stitch to hold the two middle pieces together.

This is the result:

Then do the same with the bottom edging.

And you’ve got something like this:

This is where you come in if you already have thicker lace.

Lay the eyelet lace over the top…

And stitch that in place too!

Fold the ends under and stitch them in place as well.

And we’re almost finished! What you should have at this point is a long rectangle of lace with no raw edges.

Now to thread the ribbon through!

I picked a light pink ribbon so it stands out but not too much.

Thread the ribbon through the entire length of eyelet lace.

It can be a pain to do a lot of threading without something to push it through, only problem is that the eyelet lace is a bit small to thread a safety pin through as you would usually do. So my solution is to tie the ribbon to a bobby pin.

And push it through all of the holes!

Don’t skimp on the ribbon, you need to leave enough that it can be easily tied around your leg with enough for a pretty bow. Keep the ribbon flat so it’s not twisted at all.

Pull the ribbon, gather all of the lace together and tie the ends together in a bow!

Cuuuute!

This style with the ribbons is good too because you can tighten/loosen it enough to use them as wrist cuffs, hair accessories or anything you like. Yay for versatility. You know now that I think about it more I’ll probably use them as hair accessories haha!

So there you go, hopefully this was useful to someone! As always if you have requests feel free to send them my way ^_^

Next time I’ll show you the elastic version of sock toppers!